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Isaac Streeter is going to be here from the Portland
Tribune. We're going to recap a busy, busy, busy
weekend in Oregon and Oregon State Athletics.
We just had a final Oregon State women's basketball.
We'll let you know what that is as well. I'm
back, baby, for at least a couple of days. I'm
like Carson in the first couple of weeks of March
with Oregon. High school basketball, but I'm
Danny. People call me Doc. Right over there is
my tag team partner, Justin A. Grossweiner. We
also call him Baby J. What a boy. Well, it's
weird sitting over here again. Did you miss me?
I did miss you, yeah. You didn't miss me. No,
I did. Yeah, we both were working a lot this
weekend. We both had a lot to do. Yeah, you were
working for Flow Swim. By the way, he works for
Flow Sports now, too. He's big time. You know,
I was there this weekend. It was fun. Don't diminish
it. I watched more track and field this weekend
than I have in a long time. That's great, though.
Was it fun? It was. What I was doing after a
while was I was comparing myself and what I thought
I could do to the age groups that I was watching.
So there were, for instance, like the 1500. It's
like a little less than a mile. And so I was
sitting there and going like, OK, the six and
seven year old. It's like I got them like. I
could beat them in a race. And then it'd be like
the seven and eight year olds. And then I was
like, okay, like once it was getting close to
like the 15, something, you know, 16, like they're
really training in this stuff. And I haven't
ran. I actually don't know what my mile time
would be right now, but I'm guessing like they're,
they're getting close to. like six minutes like
the 15 to 19 year old so i'm not i'm not reaching
that in a 1500 but it was fun to kind of go like
okay what level if i've competed with this age
group could i really like beat them all that's
funny which was funny to do but it was fun i
had a good time doing it but yeah we both uh
ended up doing a lot this weekend There was a
lot of, obviously, stuff that we're covering
going on this weekend as well. You weren't here
the last three days of last week. You're not
going to be here the last three days of this
week. It's going to be just Justin on Thursday,
by the way. Oh, yeah? Okay. You can handle it.
No goose. Yeah, it'll be good. But, yeah, we
had a busy weekend, so I'm excited to break it
all down and have it just be me and you for a
couple of days. We closed the door. No intern?
Just us? Yeah. We closed the door. We get back
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he's going to want to do Stingers Up because
they had a good weekend. They did in some athletic
prowess. We'll let him talk about that. Good,
bad, and the ugly coming up as well. We'll give
the results from our big bets this weekend. It
was meh for some of our hosts, but the intern
came in again. I think this is the second week
we've had an intern best the field and help Coquell
Casino and Resort. give $100 to South Coast Special
Olympics, but we'll reveal that in a moment as
well. That's called the tease, folks. We'll also
talk about from the weekend as well in Oregon
and Oregon State athletics as the regular season
winds down for men's basketball with a nice win
at home against the Dreaded Huskies. That'll
be top of mind for us. And then Oregon women
just kind of ran out of gas. It's tough. On the
third day in a row playing elite competition
in the Big Ten tournament to expect that Oregon
was going to be able to sustain the energy level,
and it showed up in the second half against Michigan.
And that's basically what it is. Listen, the
tank was on E, and you could tell. Legs were
gone. It's really tough, and that's why during
the regular season you get yourself in a position
where you get a higher seed where you can sit
back and rest. And it's a gauntlet. And it's
not one that many teams have been able to run
through. So we'll talk about that. Are we starting
there? No, no. I'm going to run through this.
Softball and baseball as well. I mean, baseball
has their first weekend of Big Ten play on the
road against Purdue. They win the series. And
the Bats woke up finally for Oregon baseball
on the road in West Lafayette. And for Oregon
State. And for Oregon State. And the women of
Oregon at Jane Sanders. I'm trying to figure
this team out. I know Nails is as well. And I'm
not pulling any fire alarms or anything else.
But am I troubled by some things? Absolutely
not. Am I interested to see how things work out?
And I think you know what I'm talking about.
Because it's been kind of like this yo -yo. You
would expect they lost a game to Nevada, then
they come back and beat Nevada to finish it off.
I don't think I'm seeing against elite competition,
and Nevada's a pretty good softball program,
is the domination I think we would, and maybe
we're spoiled, maybe we would expect. And so
I just kind of want to sort through that a bit.
You're doing a great job laying this all out
because I have thoughts on all this stuff, and
I'm ready to go. Okay. Where do you want to start
with the good, bad, and the ugly first, though?
That's probably the easiest way. Okay. We need
to wrap up the weekend. That was. And then we'll
start talking and we'll dive in because some
of this stuff we're going to talk about more.
We don't want to steal Isaac Streeter's thunder.
Yeah. Oregon State. Baseball, Oregon baseball.
Right. Isaac. We're Isaac. So we'll keep the
baseball kind of on the shelf. We can talk softball.
We can talk men's and women's basketball. And
by the way, Oregon State women are in the championship
game of the WCC. They were the four seed coming
in. They just knocked off the number one seed,
Loyola Marymount, 73 -67. So they are going to
head to Allie Schimmel, 21 points. Woo. Yeah,
baby. And so they're on their way to the championship
game, the automatic berth to the NCAA tournament.
And the other semifinal is going to be happening
here at 2 .30, right? Yes, Santa Clara and Gonzaga.
Okay, so they will play the winner of that game
in the championship game tomorrow. So we'll have
that. And we're going to have the men's WCC championship
final here on this station when? It's tomorrow,
right? Oh, no. We just talked about this, right?
Oh, no, no. Okay, the men's? No, the women's
tomorrow. We're going to have the women's game
tomorrow. Okay. Yeah, we're talking about the
same thing, I think. I didn't get clarifications
whether it was the men's and the women's. We're
going to have both here on this station. We're
going to have both of them. We're going to get
yelled at. I don't care. They can yell at me.
I'm used to being yelled at. Okay, let's do good,
bad, and the ugly. Maybe it's going to be me
being the ugly. I don't know. Okay, it's our
good, bad, and the ugly for the weekend. So you
want to start with your good? Yes, I want to
start with my good. My good is the World Baseball
Classic. It's awesome. I think the World Baseball
Classic is a huge success. I think it's weird
the way they do it, the number of years. It's
been three years since the last one. I think
it was four years since the previous one. But
don't they do it in an Olympic year? I don't
know how it works. That's my point is I don't
understand how it works in terms of the scheduling.
But man, having players play for their country
in any sport is really, really cool. It's almost
a shame you can't do that in the NFL in any way,
really, because there's so many American players.
But in all these other sports, whenever you get
the players playing for the place that they're
from, I think it brings out the best in them.
And I think we've already seen that. japan's
been really fun to watch the dominican republic
has been insane uh we saw luisa rise have a couple
home runs for uh venezuela that was really really
fun to watch as well so i think the world baseball
classic huge success i'm really looking forward
to when it really gets going obviously right
now it's in the pool play but it's been for me
it was a good start good weekend so my good is
After all of the strife that's happened with
the Oregon basketball program, they close off
fittingly with a win at home against the dreaded
Huskies. As Kwame Evans, we're going to talk
more about this later. So big lead, then Kwame
Evans Jr. converts an and one three -pointer,
helping Oregon beat Washington 85 -79 as senior
night at MKA. And it doesn't get any better.
The sweet, sweet nectar of husky tears at MKA
Arena. So I think that's redundant. MKA Arena
is Matthew Knight Arena. So Nate Biddle adds
15 points as Evans leads the Ducks with 20 points.
Again, we'll talk more about that. But that's
my good for the weekend. My bad from the weekend.
Did you see this exchange between Louisville
women's head coach Jeff Waltz as he rips? a media
reporter and the guy's got ties he used to be
a kezi reporter um andrew hobner oh he was asked
a question in his post yeah i know that is okay
he asked a question in his post game that said
and it started out with this program hasn't been
to the standard you built for it and then the
start the coach launches into this sarcastic
rant about his team has really sucked and he'd
be happy to take a buyout if the reporter launched
to go fund me to pay for it Another overreaction
by a coach. And, like, Kelly Graves was dropped
into this. I saw that. Okay, I did hear about
that. Okay, so you've got to go watch the whole
thing, but I think it's just a bad look. Jeff
Walls, just look at Jeff Walls ripping national
media over women's college basketball coverage.
Just look at that, and you'll see the clip, and
you'll know what I'm talking about. What's your
bad from the weekend? My bad from the weekend,
my good was the World Baseball Classic. My bad
was the comments from Bryce Harper on the World
Baseball Classic. He said, I've been playing
for LA 2028 for a long time. Obviously, my whole
career. It's something he's been trying to get
going. He said, the World Baseball Classic's
great, but it's not the Olympics, right? That's
no disrespect to the World Baseball Classic or
anything. Kind of is. But everybody knows that
when the Olympics are on, everyone's watching.
Yeah. Kind of is. That's a slam. And I like Bryce
Harper, by the way. There's people that don't.
I think Bryce Harper's great. I think he's honestly
like a stand -up guy. I think he's matured. He
was a little bit arrogant. He's still arrogant.
He was a man -child coming out of high school.
I didn't love the comments. Why can't we have
both? Why can't we have both? Yeah. All right,
what's your ugly? My ugly was the 22 red card
in police intervention brawl that happened in
Brazil at the end of a title match. And I'm whipping
up my stats here, so I apologize. But it was
involving two teams in the Brazil League. I'm
going to mess up one of these names. Don't worry
about it. Cruzeiro and Atletico Mineiro involving
one. Do you remember Hulk? Yes. Yeah. He's an
international from Brazil. Yeah. And this was
at the end of the game. And it sounds like somebody
like did something. And all of a sudden. 22 players.
I think 22 or 23 players. Red carded. So, I mean,
there are players coming off the bench. It was
1 -0. So, I think it was just poor sportsmanship
as much as anything. Got out of hand. So that's
pretty ugly. I would say if there's anything
that's ugly in sports, it's brawls. You know
what else is ugly? A blowout in a conference
title game for a major Power 5 conference. That
is what happened in Indianapolis. UCLA pounded
Iowa. The final score, 96 -45. If this would
have been high school basketball, it would have
been running clock. That's how bad it was. That's
kind of embarrassing. That's ugly in a championship
game for an automatic birth to the NCAA tournament,
and it's 96 -45. Is UCLA that much better? On
Sunday they were. Well, and to this point, can
we get into women's basketball? Because this
is sort of where I was going to go with that.
We can do that. I think that just goes to show
that what Oregon women's basketball did in the
NCAA, or sorry, in the Big Ten tournament. Not
just fine, but that was good. Like, that was
above my expectations. Didn't we talk about this,
though, that I said if they can get two wins
and get into the quarterfinals, that I think
now with that, and I'll just say it, I'll probably
end up being wrong, and I hope I don't jinx Kelly
Graves' team. I think this might get them to
the seven line. It might get them to the seven
line. I think that it would have, for sure, if
they would have beaten Michigan, and I was talking
about this with Goose. In a way, it might have
worked out for them the fact that they lost that
game against Washington because they played the
extra game against Purdue. It worked out as much
as anything the same. They're 22 -12 on the season.
Right. If they would have gotten another win
against Michigan, it would have been even better.
But you basically lose to Washington, so you
don't get that game, but you make up for it with
the game against Purdue, and then you get a ranked
win against Maryland, which was maybe their best
win of the season before the second win against
Maryland on a neutral site. So I think the way
that it's worked out, you were never going to
probably beat a Michigan. I mean, you just weren't.
I think the top of the conference is just way
better. The only thing that would have been better
for the Ducks this weekend is if Michigan would
have made it to the title game. That's fair.
And then would have lost. So what was tough was
that Michigan lose to Iowa. Right. And then Iowa
got smoked. And then Iowa got smoked. So, listen,
the Ducks were playing their third game in three
days against a Michigan team that earned the
double bye, which can we please fix the conference
tournaments that are lasting a week long? You
know why that is? Why? It's because there's 18
teams in the conference. And they're going to
the only 15 teams make it next year? No, I thought
they were going to the everybody makes it next
year. I don't think everybody makes it. What
are you playing the regular season for except
for the top couple? See, listen, I'm okay with
giving number one, number two. Listen, okay,
I am okay giving number one, number two a double
bye, but you don't give three and four a double
bye as well. That's fair. I don't think that's
fair to any of the competitive solution of this.
You are killing the number nine team or whatever
from, well, they just went there, but they still
had to play two games or three games in three
days. Here's my off -the -wall solution. I think
you've got to go deeper, Danny. I think you've
got to go deeper. You've got to add two more
teams into the conference, split the conference
tournament up into two tournaments, and then
have the winners of those two tournaments play
each other. Boom. Same site? I don't know. Figure
it out. No, no. You can do Chicago and Indianapolis.
Why not? If you are going to—well, you have to
have them at the same site. I'm being facetious.
I know. You just uncork it, and that's—I'm not
opposed to that. I think 18 is an odd number.
It almost feels like it should be 20. If you're
going to go 18, why not be 20? So why don't you
do this? You match—I see that. That wouldn't
work either. I'm just thinking off the top of
my head. I'm tired still. I'm thinking off the
top of my head, which I shouldn't do that. So
the Danny and Justin radio program sleep deprived
here on a Monday live for the Bigfoot Beverage
Studios, the Oregon Bank Links hotline at 541
-343 -5673. We're going to have Isaac Streeter
dialed up on that in a moment. But by the way,
the Ducks had pushed the Wolverines to double
overtime. Back on December 29th, 92 -87. So there
was this slim hope that Oregon was going to be
competitive with Michigan. And they were in the
first half. I watched the first half up in Pendleton.
They were within 10 in the third quarter, I believe.
And then it just, once it got rolling for Michigan,
it really did. Yeah, and Katie Fiso. And 2K did
well. Yeah, they did. They had good games still.
The third double -double in three games, 16 points,
11 rebounds. Fiso had 22. averaged 18, almost
19 points across the three games. She was 10
of 16 from the field with seven assists. And
that's what I wanted to bring up, too. I would
be way more concerned if we saw if a Katie had
a really bad game and if a Heese had a really
bad game and they just got swallowed up. And
this is a young team. Those are both sophomores
we're talking about. Yeah, these are good reps
for them. And obviously Katie would like to clean
up the five turnovers. But I think that they've
been both playing really, really well. And it's
come down to these last, at least, five or six
games, okay, those two players are playing really
well. Who can be that third player that can add
that scoring punch? Ari Long, Sophia Bell. Exactly.
Sarah Rambis. Well, Mia Jacobs is still coming
back. She's wearing the brace. Let's see how
effective she can be in the tournament. So, Selection
Sunday for the women, March 15th. That's this
Sunday at 5 p .m. So, we'll find out. I'm excited.
I think that there's a chance that they're at
that seven. I think so. I mean, obviously I'm
not on the selection committee and I'm biased
a bit, but I think they've done enough to get
that resume to a seven line. Tell me a better,
I mean, because when you get to the seven seed,
right, there's like the top 28 in the country,
right? Yeah, something like that. Oregon's been
just outside of that top 25, I think, in my opinion,
all season long. It'll be interesting to see
where the committee puts somebody like a Michigan
or somebody like an Iowa even now. You know,
Iowa did the best thing for themselves. by getting
to the championship game. So tip your hat to
them. They probably jumped maybe five seeds from
where they were at because I think they were
slated originally coming in like a 10 or 9, kind
of right where Oregon was. So I think they did
themselves a huge favor in that respect. We'll
see. A lot smarter people than us are going to
do that. Big bets real quick. Dom went 4 -1.
Intern Dom went 4 -1. He won the weekend. The
best, so I think it was Steve because it just
says ST here. Was that Steve, our friend Steve?
Fan Steve? Yes. Went 3 -2. So just missed. Doc,
Baby J, and Goose, speaking myself in third person,
went 2 -3. I started out hot, had St. John's
and Purdue, bam, bam, two wins right out of the
gate. And then, no, actually it was, no, it wasn't
Purdue. It was St. John's and Miami, Ohio that
won. I know you were really worried about that
one. Which one? Miami of Ohio. You texted us
in that little group chat. If we get this one,
if Goose gets this one on us, I'm really going
to be upset. I was going to be porked on that.
But Purdue let me down. Vandy let me down. Miami
let me down. So you know what? I'm just going
to say it right now, and I'll put myself on the
record. If we ever have a Tennessee game, I don't
care who they're playing, here on out, I'm not
taking Rick Barnes anymore. I'm off the ghoul.
That's it. I'm going to go ghoul free. for the
rest of Big Bets. Yeah, I Jedi mind -tricked
myself on that one because I was like, you know,
I think Tennessee won the first game on the road.
I was like, well, they're going to win at home
then. Of course not. Yeah, well, it was debatable.
All right, so when we return, we're going to
have the great Isaac Streeter. We're going to
talk Oregon, Oregon State baseball. Oregon State
gets a nice win to start their home slate. They
play again tonight. Oregon gets a series win
on the road in the Big Ten, and the Bats came
alive on Sunday. Angel Laia got out of his slump.
He was 0 -4 in that series until he stepped up
and parked a couple. So the fantastic freshman
did a great job. We'll talk about that when we
return on the Danny and Justin Radio Program.
Bigfoot Beverages Studios, Fox Sports Eugene,
Fox Sports Newport. We just talked about Oregon
State women's basketball with the win over LMU
getting into the WCC championship game. We'll
talk about that a little bit more in a moment.
The Beaver men moved to the semifinal round of
the WCC tournament as well with a one -point
win over San Francisco, the Dons. And we'll have
some audio from Wayne Tinkle in the postgame
in our last segment. as well as talking about
Oregon softball in the last segment. But let's
head on over to the Oregon Manco Lakes Hotline
at 541 -343 -5673. He's our dear friend. He works
for the Portland Tribune, but he also works for
you, friends. He covers Oregon and Oregon State
almost better than anybody else that we know.
We have to be kind to the other people that come
on this program because we don't just, like,
say that to everybody that comes on the program.
He is a Sac State alum, and we start with Stingers
Up. Isaac Streeter joins us. You can follow him,
Isaac underscore Streeter, on Twitter. What up,
friend? Gentlemen, can I get a quick stingers
up from both of you? Stingers up! Stingers up,
boys. In a time where that athletic department
has made me feel foolish and silly and dumb and
overly hopeful, we beat... Defending national
champion, LSU, and a best two out of three series.
You know, credit to the boys. There's a couple
of them left from when I was covering the team
as a senior in college that were active in my
Instagram DMs last night. So shout out to the
fellas. That was fun to watch. It's time to get
Reggie Christensen a slice of that NIL war chest
that they supposedly have. make Sac State baseball,
give them the flowers they deserve. I always
loved David Goliath. And it's the best thing
to write about, isn't it? I mean, this is what
you do for a living. Most definitely. It's so
much fun. Those starting pitchers, I think they
gave up, like, four hits in, you know, 15 innings
or something of that nature in those starts.
Like, those guys were awesome this weekend and,
you know, just so much fun for them. That's awesome,
man. We're happy for you. I wanted to give you
the platform right when we jumped out of this
because we're with you. Although I've never been
to Sac State. You're not missing much. Well,
come on, man. But still, all right, they got
the series win. Come on, man. We just propped
them up. You don't have to say that. You're not
going to be the poster child for Sacramento,
right? Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm happy to. Sacramento
versus the world, man. But, you know, we're comfortable
enough to admit our weaknesses. There's no, you
know, Oregon budget here. Gotcha. All right.
Mustang Isaac Streeter joining us on the Oregon
Manco Linux Hotline at 541 -343 -5673. Let's
start with Oregon baseball because you're going
to be heading down to Corvallis to watch Xavier
and Oregon State. finish off their series but
let's talk about the opening weekend series for
the ducks in big 10 play and the offense was
muted in the first two games a win and a loss
and a 2 -1 loss spoiling Just an incredible outing
by Colin Clark on the mound for the Ducks in
day two. But then they come back. Man, the bats
came alive. 11 hits, 9 RBIs for Angel Laya, Drew
Smith, and what we like to call Mayo or Hellboy,
Dominic Hellman. Let's start out with that. What
do you think is a better nickname? It's the Big
Mayo. The Big Mayo. We got three nicknames now.
No, see, but he used my mayo in mine, not yours.
Okay. So I'm going to defend my dear friend Jared
Mack here. Big Mayo is his nickname. He's been
pushing that one since that kid was a freshman.
See, I didn't have the big in front of me. I
just had Mayo. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's a great
nickname. He looks like a beer league softball
player out there right now. It's just electric
to watch him swing the bat. 15 -4 series clinching
win. I listened to it at Alexander Field in Purdue
on Sunday. Aliyah was struggling in this series,
belted a pair of home runs into the bullpen for
the second time this year, went four for five,
four RBI, Smith and Hellman. Cal Scolari picks
up the win. He's now 3 -0, and what a great get
for the Ducks there. So my question to you. is
going to be about the offense first is that the
Ducks this kind of seems to be a rinse and repeat
from last year where they struggle mightily in
one game and then all of a sudden it's like this
explosion of the bats are we looking for more
consistency out of the offense for the balance
of this season for Waz's team is that what he
wants I would imagine so. I haven't gotten a
chance to talk to him since this series. You
know, I'll see him tomorrow and we'll catch up.
But, you know, kind of my instant thought on
this is like that, yeah, sure, it would be nice
to see more consistency out of them and see them
play some higher level competition than what
the Big Ten has to offer. But, you know, the
simple fact is they're not going to until – wait
for it. They're going to end the year with –
two three -game series against number one UCLA
and number 25 USC right before the Big Ten tournament.
And so I've got both of those circled right now.
Those are going to be just, you can't really
overstate how important those series will be.
Obviously, we're looking down the road there.
But, I mean, this is just kind of going to be
par for the course. And I feel like, you know,
with them just playing lesser competition kind
of throughout the year, it's going to be a while
before we really get to see them against, you
know. the kind of competition that they think
they should be playing against every weekend.
First of all, what do you think Xavier Baseball
is thinking? Who convinced them to play four
games against Oregon State and then go down and
play Oregon? Xavier Baseball is thinking, where
can we find more ibuprofen for all these pitchers?
They ran this poor freshman outfielder out there
for two and a third last night who is not on
the roster as a pitcher. He's an outfielder.
And basically told him, buddy, we got to get
some innings. And credit to him. I think he put
up a scoreless inning, actually, at one point.
Let's go. Those guys are nuts, man. They're doing
that. And before this, they played a midweek
against Ohio State, too, before they came out
here. So these guys have played, like, seven
games in the last ten days. Just real warriors.
Yeah, yeah. Insanity. We're doing a lot of coverage
of Xavier baseball around here, as are you, as
we're talking to Isaac. Treater of the Portland
Tribune. But Oregon, you know, solid weekend,
I would say, as Danny said. The offense broke
out in that last game. Not the best in game two.
Feels to me like this team, I like the starting
pitching. I like the options there. I like the
lineup. How do you feel about the back end of
the bullpen, like in the bullpen in general?
Do you think that's on the same level as other
two categories, or am I just sort of not seeing
it yet? I'm actually super in on the bullpen,
specifically two arms. I really like Devin Bell.
He's the senior right -hander that they got from
Western Oregon this offseason. He's pumping like
a serious 95 with the slider. Looks like a good
option for him. I think the ERA is super inflated
right now because he got touched up against Irvine,
but jumped back up there on the mound the next
day and got the save in that final game. I think
that was a Vandy. I'm crossing my wires there.
But he looks like a serious threat. It's crazy
to me that... He's been at Western Oregon for
the last three years at Sirius Velo. And Tanner
Bradley is another fun arm for them. He's like
a sinker, sweeper -y guy, lower slot from the
right side. But that's been good. Also got touched
up a little bit at Purdue, but has put together
really strong innings before that. I think Michael
Mechner is a piece for them. It's more the middle
relief that worries me with this team and just
will continue to do so. It seems like they're
going to be without Ian Amlant for most of the
season. But, yeah, I mean, the middle relief,
if you're not getting six innings out of these
starters, I think that's when you kind of start
to get worried. So, Isaac, I'll just ask you
about a guy that I've talked about because he's
been a starter early on this season. I think
he picked up the second game start. A kid that's
been oft injured in the last few years with Oregon,
but now he shows up in relief a couple of times.
It's Toby Twist. And I think he could – could
he be that middle relief solve? Yeah, definitely.
I mean, I think they view him as potentially
a guy who's, like I mentioned, with Umlont, potentially
down. I think Toby's going to end up having to
carry a lot of midweek starts for them. But,
you know, if they could get two innings out of
him on the weekends, you know, out of the bullpen,
that could be pretty serious. That's a kid that
when he showed up as a freshman was like a top
50 draft guy before the elbow blew up. Didn't
see him a ton at the end of last year. But, yeah,
I mean, I think we'd be foolish to overlook Toby
Twist as a piece of that composition. Yeah, I
mean, I think it's a great story as well because
this is a kid who's fought back and just keeps
coming back and is not giving up. Now, I don't
think he got in. I'm just looking over the box
score from yesterday. I don't know if he threw
at all this weekend. I like the midweek start
thing, so we might see him against Xavier in
one of these games. I don't know. But he's intriguing
to me, and I don't want to fixate on that. But,
I mean, with 14 arms in starting and then the
bullpen, I mean, that's where college baseball
is won and lost for the most part. You can talk
about the offense all you want, but as the Ducks
have seen, and Oregon State will see it the same
way, pitching is at a premium, and if you've
got all three sets of it, you can go a long way.
Most definitely. And I think the biggest thing
to keep in mind with Toby Twist is that he checks
the name box. He's got the name aura. And so
that's, you know, really important for starting
pitchers. Toby Twist, great name. And as a left
-handed guy, I mean, I got to root for my lefties.
Oh, of course. Always like a good lefty. I want
to talk about a little bit of Oregon State baseball
as well. Really solid weekend for them. Obviously,
we were talking about the Xavier. They have another
game tonight against Xavier at 535, which I know
you're going to be there. Just your thoughts
on the weekend so far. The offense kind of finally
breaking out. It feels like maybe the game against
Oregon was the game that first happened. But
yeah, just your evaluation of the first three
games of the series so far. Yeah, Round Rock
was weird, and I think that really skewed a lot
of perception on them. They've never played well
in the two years that they've gone down there
for that tournament. Came back, I agree. I think
that Oregon game was really big for them, especially
given that they hadn't won in PK Park in two
years, I believe, and especially after Oregon
took all four from them last year. I know there
was definitely some weight in that matchup. I
think the biggest thing about the offense right
now is just kind of figuring out how these pieces
are coming together. And as of late, Josh Proctor,
the freshman outfielder who I got to chat with
over the summer and was really impressed with
when he was playing with the Corvallis Knights,
is really coming into his own. Looks like a true
cleanup power threat. And I think the most interesting
thing about this offense right now is they're
getting production from guys that, in the lead
-up to the preseason, we didn't talk about them
leaning on production -wise. Jacob Craig has
been... you know, something of a non -factor
for them thus far. I think he's below the Mendoza
line and running, like, a 60 % strikeout rate.
It's been tough for him. He pulled one out of
the yard a couple nights ago. But, you know,
A .J. Singer has been struggling, too. Easton
Taltz is normal self. He's not walking at the
rate he did last year, but has been a good leadoff
man for them. But, you know, they're leaning
on the guys that Adam hates for the world, and
Josh Proctor have become, you know, really big
top -end pieces for them. And it's funny, too,
because the guy that you could absolutely look
at as the best guy in their lineup right now,
Jacob Galloway, doesn't have a home run so far,
but he only has two strikeouts and six walks.
So not getting a ton of walks or anything like
that, but any time you're getting more walks
than strikeouts in general, that's really, really
good, especially three times as many walks than
strikeouts. So he's just a really interesting
guy as sort of your best guy in the middle of
your order. Yeah, he has such— an interesting
skill set he's so good behind the dish and his
like swing decisions are you know i don't want
to say bizana level but like he he just has an
elite eye at the plate right now um the i i don't
think the over the fence power is ever really
going to be there um but you know he's driving
it to the gaps and as a three hitter kind of
guy i mean it's it's pretty electric Oregon State
goes into this matchup with Xavier tonight. Oregon
State 10 -4 on the season right now. Xavier 5
-10, Goss Stadium 535. First pitch in Corvallis.
We've got the great Isaac Streeter. He is a personality
hire for the Portland Tribune. You can follow
him on Twitter. Your words, buddy. Those are
your – I'm reading it right from the bio. I know.
It just always gets me. Well, that's good. I'm
glad I can help you out. Isaac underscore Streeter.
He's our good friend. We call him Mustang. Joining
us on the Danny and Justin radio program. So
I want to talk about the – bats. As Oregon State
finishes with 15 hits, took advantage of 16 walks,
six hit by a batter for the 17 -2 win over Xavier
Sunday afternoon. But I will say, as Oregon State
faces more elite pitching, and they show that
when the early part of the season in Frisco and
in Round Rock and such, that they were up and
down. It was peaks and valleys. Do you think
this is going to even out? Is Mitch Canham going
to mold this team into more small ball as he
works deeper into the season and starts to keep
playing elite talent and elite pitching? Yeah,
I mean, we talk about the small ball thing plenty,
and I think kind of the underlying way of what
that means for this team is they're just not
going to hit home runs with the clip that they
did last year. There you go. Yep. Going to be
plenty of doubles in the gap, but, you know.
I think they're still figuring out how they want
to run bases consistently if they want to be
a team that steals a ton of bags. It hasn't been
great for them early on, if I'm being honest.
I've seen Easton Tull get picked off a couple
times. Eli Greaves -Smith, who's like a utility
fourth outfielder for them, kind of the same
deal. They've got plenty of speed on that team,
but I just think they're going to end up being
a team that's really happy hitting. four singles
and getting a guy in or you know a double in
the gap yeah they're five of 12 on the season
so far which is certainly even really just as
you said like fewer attempts than i was expecting
to this point in the season um on the pitching
side uh uh Ethan Kleinschmidt had a nice Saturday
start, went five innings, two earned runs. Previous
couple starts against Alabama and Southern Miss
got touched up a bit after a nice first start.
Nine strikeouts and only one earned run against
Arizona. You think he figured out things a little
bit after a couple bad starts? I would still
kind of quantify this start as one that he himself
wasn't happy with. We talked to him after the
game. He was just kind of glad that they won
the game. He had a really rough second inning
there and has gotten tagged on some fastballs
up in the zone. It's kind of been his issue.
He's a fly ball pitcher. When he's struggling
to really command the zone, that's when things
get dicey for him, and that was kind of the case
early on. I think it's still super early for
him, and I think he's going to settle down. The
ERA is just making it look a bit weird. I mean,
Bama got into him for some home runs, but he's
a steady heartbeat guy. He's going to figure
it out just fine. He's just not someone who's
going to want, and not that any of them do. I
mean, Dax's stuff is just so ridiculous that
he racks up the strikeouts. But I'm starting
to feel like, you know, that just isn't what
Ethan Kleinschmidt needs to be for them. He's
going to be a workhorse. Strikeouts will come
because the stuff's nasty. But, you know, he's
going to really just grind out innings for them.
Flash the new changeup quite a bit on Saturday.
That was really impressive. Rich Dorman, the
pitching coach, has done with changeups on this
roster this offseason is disgusting. In a good
way. Yes, in a good way. Yeah. We want to make
sure anybody who's driving down the road that's
as old as I am is going to go, okay, is that
good or is that bad? No, that's a good thing.
All right, Isaac. Really impressive change -ups.
Yeah, well, you know, maybe we'll dive into that
a little bit more next time we talk. So we're
going to let you go because I know we've got
to get you in the car and get you down to Goss
Stadium. But I want to ask you this before I
let you go. Isaac Streeter from the Portland
Tribune. We call him Mustang here on the Danny
and Justin Radio program. at the ballpark? Sunflower
seeds. Oh, nice. Do you have the separate cup
that you're spitting? Oh, yeah. I've got to have
the spitter cup. Okay. All right, good. So is
it just straight, or do you go for the flavors
at all? It depends. If I'm going for a flavor,
I'm keeping it pretty simple. I've dabbled with
some cracked pepper, some lemon pepper ones.
So you're not adventurous like to the ranch or
the barbecue? I don't need all that. I just want
the salt. You're a simple guy. We like that.
All right, Isaac. Well, love your coverage, man,
and really appreciate it, as always. I know I
keep saying it every time you get on the program,
but you know what? You've got to thank the people
you love. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate
it. Take care. All right, there he goes, the
great Isaac Streeter. We call him Mustang. All
right, when we come back, we're going to hear
from Wayne Tinkle in the postscript of... His
lame duck run. I'm just going to tell you, Justin,
wouldn't this be great if the Beavers win the
automatic bid into the NCAA tournament? It would
be. The irony would be thick. You could taste
the irony. Sweet, sweet. Oregon softball as well
had a nice weekend on Championship Sunday. We'll
talk about that when we return on the Danny and
Justin radio program. Thanks again to Isaac Streeter,
Mustang. You can follow him, Isaac, that's two
A's, underscore Streeter, on the Twitter. Portland
Tribune, Oregon, Oregon State beat writer, and
a SAC State alum. Want to do one more time for
him? Stingers up. I'm surprised we didn't drop
a SAC State in there either. Well, that's what
he's embarrassed about, I think. They jacked
him around a little bit. So let's head to Jane
Sanders Stadium. It was championship Sunday for
Oregon softball. Five -run first inning ensured
that the Ducks were the queens of the Jane Sanders
Classic. Oregon closed out its second home tournament
of the spring with a win Sunday. Jumping on Nevada
early, their only loss of the weekend came earlier
in the weekend to the Wolfpack. A day after dropping
that game to Nevada, they post a 7 -3 win. The
bats start coming alive. I love that Riley McCoy
is starting to hit the ball now. Yes, and Stephanie.
And Stephanie Mahaka. Yeah, she had a nice. Friday.
McCoy drives in. The two lead runners putting
the Ducks up for the first time. 3 -2. Ake goes
one for four with an RBI as well as the Ducks.
They pound out 12 hits, seven runs. They left
nine on base still. But Lindsey Grein gets the
win. She's now 10 -3. The fabulous Frosh, Maddie
Millhorn, closes out the last out. She doesn't
get a save because they were way up. And so the
Ducks now. We'll get ready for Penn State. They
will host the opening of the Big Ten Friday,
6 p .m. on Big Ten Plus. So we talked about it.
I want to get to Wayne Tinkle and Oregon State
as we close out the show. But I'm kind of waiting
for this domination. See, is that the word I
would like to— Honestly, what is the way you
put it earlier? You don't have concerns yet?
I don't have any concerns. I'm a little concerned.
I'm not overly concerned. I think I'm a little
worried about the pitching. I know that sounds
crazy. Like you said, it just hasn't been quite
as dominant yet. And I think there's times with
your lineup against Nevada, you know, you lose
5 -8. Like, it happens. But I'm a little more
concerned with not— With giving up eight runs,
then I am not getting more than five, if that
makes sense. I just, even, I mean, and Lindsey's
been, she gave up three runs against Nevada,
and she's been very, very good outside of a couple
of starts over the last, like, ten appearances,
say. But Elise has been a little spotty. Okay,
so here's how I'll quantify that. Okay. Is the
early part of the season is you're playing a
lot of, you're playing double headers, back -to
-back games, back -to -back days. going out not
just two days, but three days and four days.
It's going to be unlike the conference season.
When you start getting into the meat of the conference
season, you're going to play a three set against
teams for the most part. So the way you set up
your pitching staff is going to be different
than when you're in a tournament setting. It
is. So that's where probably we're seeing the
peaks and valleys. I am more concerned. if i
have a concern at all is the consistency on the
offensive side interesting we have i think we
have different concerns the offense for some
reason the consistency has not been there as
you said but elon butler has certainly been consistent
oh she's been really consistent and we're talking
about a couple of kids that are new to the program
as well so it's about that blend But, I mean,
I want to see Riley McCoy. Totally. I want to
see Stephanie Maake. We just mentioned them at
the top. Yeah. I mean, these are bats that were
big for Oregon last year in huge situations that,
you know, it's okay. I mean, we're in the baby
step part of the season. Well, and that's where
I feel like for, I say I'm a little concerned.
I'm not very concerned because for both of these
sides of the ball. The offense, I just sort of
feel like Riley McCoy is going to be really good
after a while. I think that Stephanie Malake
is going to pick it up after a while. I think
that the offense, they're just too talented not
to be good. And really, it's the same thing with
the pitching, too, I would say. I think Lindsey,
you know, she's been awesome. I'm not really
worried about it. At least I think that, yeah,
she'll figure it out. Maddie, obviously been
throwing heat out there, and that's been really
fun to see. You know, the experience, you know,
with Taylor Spencer has been really important,
I think, too. Super -duper worried. I am a little
bit concerned. I just think that, like you said,
I was expecting this team to go out there, and
maybe it's crazy, but to win like 8 -0 every
day. And listen, we're talking about a team that's
already got 18 wins. I know. Now, last year at
this time, they had over 20 wins. But this isn't
last year. Version 8 is going to be different
than Version 7, which is different than Version
6. And the goal is to get to Oklahoma City. exactly
and that's one thing i was going to say is that
one thing i think they have been doing a pretty
good job with is that lindsey i think she had
180 innings last year she has 60 so far which
i think is pretty solid you have lindsey with
60 elise has 40 right now maddie and spencer
have around No, they're both around 30 plus or
minus, like a few innings. So that's pretty good
in terms of you're getting your obviously best
pitcher out there for a large majority of those
innings, but it's not so crazy that you're just
relying on her. I think that it's going to be
so important going through the schedule to have
her and the whole pitching staff fresh as the
season goes along. So that's what I was concerned
about coming into the year, and I think they're
doing a good job. Keeping her fresh and just
the whole rotation. The Danny Justin Reddier
program here on a Monday. Yeah, it's Monday already.
It's the night. And if my throat still sounds
a little raspy, it's not cigars and whiskey.
It's just calling a lot of high school basketball,
which I'll get to do again this week, which I'm
happy to do. Oregon hosts Penn State Friday,
6 p .m. That starts the Big Ten season for the
Ducks. Let's talk Oregon State men's basketball.
They moved on to the semifinal round of the WCC
tournament. 78 -77 win over San Francisco. They
trailed 11 -0 in this game. Right from the jump.
They come back. They will advance to take on
Gonzaga in the semifinals. That's this evening,
is it? Yeah, 6 p .m. tonight. And so after the
game, and, of course, all the storyline is going
to be Wayne Tinkle, number four seed, you're
a lame duck. You know you're going to go out.
You're going to coach the rest of the season.
And what is it about Wayne Tinkle? What is it
about? There were a lot of emotions when I was
by myself, but we had to make sure we made it
about the team this week. That's all we've ever
done, right? And we talk about being selfless
and really doing what we do for the betterment
of the group. So why would I make it about me,
the individual, all of a sudden? That would be
so hypocritical. We've got enough of that in
our society. So it was just, hey, we're going
to move forward. Before the game, like, guys,
we love each other so much. Why would we want
this to be our last night? Let's keep this thing
going. And so that was really the focus all week,
not about any of the other stuff. Des White finishes
with 18 points, comes back from injury. Josiah
Lake II finished with 18, seven assists, four
rebounds. Isaiah Sy had 12. And Oregon State
outscored the Dons 37 -2 from the bench. Oregon
State's now 17 -15 overall. Only chance to make
the NCAA tournament is to shock the world and
win the WCC. They take one step closer playing
Gonzaga, who they split with this season. By
the way, Mookie Cook, former Oregon Duck, only
nine minutes, no points in that game against
Oregon State. You know, Oregon State, they might
regret this one. They might have screwed up a
little bit. Might have messed up a little bit
by letting Wayne Tinkle go. I think so. Wayne
Tinkle. I think that might come back to bite
them. I'll tell you, wouldn't it be the biggest
just thumbs up in your face, you know, the nose
in your face by going. you know what, we're going
to make the NCAA tournament. How do you like
them apples? They're a lot closer than I think
Scott Barnes would like in a way. Could you please
get the drop from Goodwill Hunting? Sure. How
do you like them apples for tomorrow if Oregon
State beats Gonzaga? I mean, I don't know if
this was, like, confirmed, but do you see the
video of, like, I don't remember which game it
was, but the Beavers after the firing of Scott
Barnes, air quotes. No, it's firing. Of Dwayne
Tinkle, that he, like, wasn't cheering after,
like, a big shot or something like that. Did
you see that video at all? No, I did not. We're
going to have to look this up and confirm if
it was really Scott Barnes. But, yeah, I think.
I don't know. I mean, if you're Scott Barnes,
how do you feel about, like, this team making
the NCAA tournament? Like, are you happy after
you just, like, let the coach go? Like, I don't
know. I mean, it doesn't seem like that's. I
mean, it sounds messed up because you want to.
It is messed up. You know what I mean? That's
the whole thing. It is totally messed up. Oh,
a joke. I got fired from the bank today. A woman
asked me to check her balance, so I pushed her.
Dad jokes. Another animal dad joke. What do you
call a cow when it grows facial hair? Oh, no,
sorry. What do you call it when a cow grows facial
hair? That makes more sense. What do you call
it when a cow grows facial hair? A moo -stache.
A moo -stache. All right, tomorrow on the program,
and I know he's probably listening, but I haven't
asked him yet. We're going to get Thurston boys
basketball coach Blaine Libitor on the program.
He's a good friend of the program. So we'll get
Thurston is in the 5A state basketball final
eight up in McMinnville. For Justin, I'm Danny.
God bless. Put a smile on your face. Someone
else's. They deserve it. So do you. Peace.